I read the news last week: an old friend died. Heâ??d been hanging on for years, a shadow of his former self. Once he was the leading authority on almost every subject. Someone you sought out to settle disputes or provide crucial information. He was strong and handsome, in that old-school professorial-leather-patched-sleeves kind of way.
But strength isnâ??t an adaptive asset anymore. Today, the nimble and ephemeral inherit the earth. And so Encyclopaedia Britannica has lain to rest its print edition, those gold-lettered pillars that held up your familyâ??s bookshelves. It was a good run â?? 244 years. But all authoritarian regimes eventually fall.
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